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• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 1区
• 小类 : 环境科学 - 1区
• 小类 : 环境研究 - 1区
• 小类 : 地理学 - 1区
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https://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-environmental-change/
The dominant focus of climate change research has been on warning about risks, vulnerabilities, and damages, often overlooking the significant efforts made by human systems to build and sustain resilience. This special issue addresses the gap by highlighting the achievements, progress, and innovative solutions in climate resilience, emphasizing successful strategies and potentials that enable communities, organizations, and governments to reduce structural inequalities and vulnerabilities. By showcasing real-world examples of resilience and exploring effective technologies, policies, and methodologies, the issue will offer a hopeful perspective on enhancing human-system resilience. The collection will provide evidence-based strategies for climate adaptation and resilience building, with implications for scientific research, policy development, and practical applications. It aims to foster a narrative of optimism, against the backdrop of risk and crisis discourses, and to demonstrate the potential for equitable climate-resilient development in diverse contexts.
The anticipated contributions of the special issue will significantly advance scientific understanding of climate resilience by expanding knowledge on adaptation strategies, resilience-building processes, and the dynamics of social-environment systems under climate stress. The issue will deepen insights in several key areas:1. The special issue will provide empirical studies that document effective adaptation strategies across diverse contexts as Singh et al descriped in 2022, offering concrete examples of how communities, institutions, and governments have effectively responded to climate-related challenges. This evidence will enhance scientific understanding of what works in resilience-building, moving beyond theoretical frameworks to real-world applications. Such case studies will help demonstrate factors that contribute to success, such as social networks, governance structures, and technological innovations, thus enriching resilience theory with practical insights.2. By incorporating historical data on human adaptation and resilience over millennia, the issue will offer a long-term perspective on the pace and trajectories of change in social systems. This time depth will improve our understanding of how resilience evolves across different time scales and reveal patterns that can inform current resilience strategies. Scientific analysis of historical adaptations will also allow for the identification of thresholds and tipping points in social-ecological systems, providing crucial knowledge for anticipating future climate impacts.3. The special issue will contribute to the development of novel methodologies for assessing and enhancing resilience, which is definitely a methodological challenge particularly in modeling resilience dynamics and resilience outcomes across different spatial and temporal scales. This will include innovative approaches of integrating agent-based models and social network analysis, offering new ways to evaluate resilience quantitatively and qualitatively.4. By bridging disciplines, the issue will offer comprehensive insights into the multi-faceted nature of resilience, including social, economic, and environmental dimensions. This interdisciplinary approach will not only advance scientific theories of resilience but also support evidence-based policymaking.
Collectively, these contributions will significantly advance climate resilience research, providing a richer, more nuanced understanding of how human-social systems can thrive amid climate-related stresses.
Guest editors: Liang Emlyn Yang, Vincenzo Bolletino, Matthias Garschagen, Petra Tschakert, Mark Tebboth
环境科学与工程
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Sustainable Transport in the Climate-Change Era
全文截稿: 2025-07-01
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